Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Auguste Comte

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Azar Nafisi

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Ayn Rand

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

Jane Jacobs

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Thomas Hoving

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.

Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

and City

Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!

Whitney Mays

At some point, your will dies. At some point, your addiction has a whole other plan for you.

Mark Griffiths

When I started out particularly in Internet addiction back in 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem. In no way has the hype lived up to what has actually been found in research.

Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Aldous Huxley

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Desmond Tutu

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kendall Jenner

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cardinal Richelieu

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.